What I REALLY wish for Christmas is that...
- Jamie Sommers would get her own personality on Bionic Woman.
- Maya and Sylar will hook up. (what? :P)
- Ana, Libby and Eko get resurrected on LOST. I mean ALL of them. (a girl can dream, can't she?)
- Aliens from an advanced humanoid civilization bring a fleet to earth, beam all the US Troops out of Iraq, dematerialize weapons everywhere--even the fake ones, shut down FOX News, place sentient robotic planetary guards on every corner of the planet, and finally bring peace to our corrupt world by reason that the Universe can't handle anymore Neo-Con Right WingNuts.
This was snabbed from _wwsd_ at some bored moment. Now I've spent far too much time on it, I realize, LOL.
STEP ONE
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
STEP TWO
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
I did this thinking 'ah, what the hell' which will explain why most of these sound pretty tounge in cheek (although #9 is dead serious after that last BW episode, arghhh.) Around this time of year when people start making lists, me and mom always have our little running joke that consists of a line from a hysterical Calvin & Hobbes strip. Calvin comes to his mom with a zillion page list that consists of various weapons of mass destruction and she stares at her funny little spiky haired son and says, "You're going to be one sad little kid on Christmas Day."
Fortunately, LJ wishlists usually involve the cloak and dagger exchange of music and graphics. Gosh I love the 'net.
My e-mail is cheetamaster9@yahoo.com. I don't want to put any addresses here cuz this is a public post, so just send me an e-mail, anon or whatever, and I'll get back with you. :)
But She's Not Serious, Is She??
1. MAYA/SYLAR FANMIX - Cuz that's my new favorite pairing, clearly. I really don't have a lot of ideas for a fanmix...though I've been thinking about it. And I have basically one song for it stuck in my head, LOL. That would be interesting to hear someone else's fanmix though. And see the pretty graphic. :)
2. PICS of your Christmas decor! Assuming you do that decor thing. I remember last year, or year before that, some of you had some very pretty decorations, tree-wise. I don't decorate, so I live vicariously through you people. :P
3. MUSIC. I lost a lot of my music with the theft of my computer, though by the grace of God, I had the foresight to upload as much of it onto my flash drive as possible. Not all of it, but I did zip up a few albums and most of my favorite scattered songs. Anyway, any music you really like and think I or anyone else should really be listening to, hey send me a link, I'd love to hear it. I'm always collecting new music, whatever the genre (but please, no heavy metal, death metal, goth metal or anything resembling Evanescence) I prefer classic rock, some country (like Red Foley, Dixie Chicks) Ballad or easy listening type songs (Elvis, Norah Jones, Johnny Cash type artists) I love classical music, in fact if you have any Bach or Tchaikovsky, Chopin, I would LOVE to hear it. Opera is fun, SOME R&B, not that racy stuff (I tend to listen to mostly Alicia Keys, Beyonce or Macy Grey type stuff) Anything from far-off-foreign-lands is cool too. Hit me!
4. ELDER SCROLLS: OBLIVION. I know, why would I put this here, I don't have a computer, I can't play it and I don't think the school computers have the muscle to accommodate it. This is really more of an FYI for me personally since I don't really need but desperately want that game--on a 360, actually. Not a PC. So maybe when I get a 360. Anyway, I'm just putting it here, to add to the true Christmassy thing of wanting but never having, y'know? :P
5. AN XBOX 360. :P Another personal FYI. I was going to buy a used one off of Ebay like a year ago but some fool slipped in a bid at the last second. Bastard. It won't happen again....or I'll send Jessica after him, mwahaha.
6. This will seem really silly, and I'm not being very serious, this is one of those 'hey, wouldn't it be cool if..."'s.
So, wouldn't it be cool if: foxestacado painted or sketched a wallpaper sized piece of fanart that features characters resembling Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Joe Flanigan, (younger)David Duchovney, Gillian Anderson and Jason Momoa, either in the form of their most popular characters or out, as long as they are in surroundings that look kind of spacey and sci fi-ish. There are three stories by Ray Bradbury I'm thinking of which each have inspired my visualized setup for the piece of art, they are The Long Rain, A Sound Of Thunder and Marionettes INC. Why those people and why those stories, you ask? It's a kind of fanfic thing I've been working on, to date it has no plot and no title, but those people are in it and the story is very Bradbury inspired. That's all I shall say. This is so dumb and Fox, if you read this, it is completely up to you if you take up a project like that, I know you're very busy and have your own issues to cope with. This is like...if you ever decide you'd like to sketch or paint something one day out of sheer boredom, maybe next week, maybe next year, I'm just putting this idea out there. You have complete creative freedom with this.
7. A MUSIC VIDEO (mostly Maya/Sylar centric) music video set to Pure Morning by Placebo.
8. scary_tan to make an icon post already. :P
9. Dark Angel to crossover onto Bionic Woman and kick Jaime's ass. Really...this has gone on far enough. There's only room for one cool and COMPETENT brunette in this town.
Or just the Dark Angel DVD's...
10. BOOKS. Sci Fi, or Philip K Dick type crack. No George Orwell, he's too long winded. Any books by Ray Bradbury. The Dune series (I need a good laugh). Wonder Woman comics. The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico.
But I wish of course, most of all, that you ALL have a happy, pleasant, I-Stuffed-Myself-Sick-With-Goodies Holiday.
- Maya and Sylar will hook up. (what? :P)
- Ana, Libby and Eko get resurrected on LOST. I mean ALL of them. (a girl can dream, can't she?)
- Aliens from an advanced humanoid civilization bring a fleet to earth, beam all the US Troops out of Iraq, dematerialize weapons everywhere--even the fake ones, shut down FOX News, place sentient robotic planetary guards on every corner of the planet, and finally bring peace to our corrupt world by reason that the Universe can't handle anymore Neo-Con Right WingNuts.
This was snabbed from _wwsd_ at some bored moment. Now I've spent far too much time on it, I realize, LOL.
STEP ONE
- Make a post (public, friendslocked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fun ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.
- If you wish for real possible things, make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.
- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.
STEP TWO
- Surf around your friendslist (or friendsfriends, or just random journals) to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:
- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.
You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.
There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.
I did this thinking 'ah, what the hell' which will explain why most of these sound pretty tounge in cheek (although #9 is dead serious after that last BW episode, arghhh.) Around this time of year when people start making lists, me and mom always have our little running joke that consists of a line from a hysterical Calvin & Hobbes strip. Calvin comes to his mom with a zillion page list that consists of various weapons of mass destruction and she stares at her funny little spiky haired son and says, "You're going to be one sad little kid on Christmas Day."
Fortunately, LJ wishlists usually involve the cloak and dagger exchange of music and graphics. Gosh I love the 'net.
My e-mail is cheetamaster9@yahoo.com. I don't want to put any addresses here cuz this is a public post, so just send me an e-mail, anon or whatever, and I'll get back with you. :)
But She's Not Serious, Is She??
1. MAYA/SYLAR FANMIX - Cuz that's my new favorite pairing, clearly. I really don't have a lot of ideas for a fanmix...though I've been thinking about it. And I have basically one song for it stuck in my head, LOL. That would be interesting to hear someone else's fanmix though. And see the pretty graphic. :)
2. PICS of your Christmas decor! Assuming you do that decor thing. I remember last year, or year before that, some of you had some very pretty decorations, tree-wise. I don't decorate, so I live vicariously through you people. :P
3. MUSIC. I lost a lot of my music with the theft of my computer, though by the grace of God, I had the foresight to upload as much of it onto my flash drive as possible. Not all of it, but I did zip up a few albums and most of my favorite scattered songs. Anyway, any music you really like and think I or anyone else should really be listening to, hey send me a link, I'd love to hear it. I'm always collecting new music, whatever the genre (but please, no heavy metal, death metal, goth metal or anything resembling Evanescence) I prefer classic rock, some country (like Red Foley, Dixie Chicks) Ballad or easy listening type songs (Elvis, Norah Jones, Johnny Cash type artists) I love classical music, in fact if you have any Bach or Tchaikovsky, Chopin, I would LOVE to hear it. Opera is fun, SOME R&B, not that racy stuff (I tend to listen to mostly Alicia Keys, Beyonce or Macy Grey type stuff) Anything from far-off-foreign-lands is cool too. Hit me!
4. ELDER SCROLLS: OBLIVION. I know, why would I put this here, I don't have a computer, I can't play it and I don't think the school computers have the muscle to accommodate it. This is really more of an FYI for me personally since I don't really need but desperately want that game--on a 360, actually. Not a PC. So maybe when I get a 360. Anyway, I'm just putting it here, to add to the true Christmassy thing of wanting but never having, y'know? :P
5. AN XBOX 360. :P Another personal FYI. I was going to buy a used one off of Ebay like a year ago but some fool slipped in a bid at the last second. Bastard. It won't happen again....or I'll send Jessica after him, mwahaha.
6. This will seem really silly, and I'm not being very serious, this is one of those 'hey, wouldn't it be cool if..."'s.
So, wouldn't it be cool if: foxestacado painted or sketched a wallpaper sized piece of fanart that features characters resembling Michelle Rodriguez, Richard Dean Anderson, Amanda Tapping, Joe Flanigan, (younger)David Duchovney, Gillian Anderson and Jason Momoa, either in the form of their most popular characters or out, as long as they are in surroundings that look kind of spacey and sci fi-ish. There are three stories by Ray Bradbury I'm thinking of which each have inspired my visualized setup for the piece of art, they are The Long Rain, A Sound Of Thunder and Marionettes INC. Why those people and why those stories, you ask? It's a kind of fanfic thing I've been working on, to date it has no plot and no title, but those people are in it and the story is very Bradbury inspired. That's all I shall say. This is so dumb and Fox, if you read this, it is completely up to you if you take up a project like that, I know you're very busy and have your own issues to cope with. This is like...if you ever decide you'd like to sketch or paint something one day out of sheer boredom, maybe next week, maybe next year, I'm just putting this idea out there. You have complete creative freedom with this.
7. A MUSIC VIDEO (mostly Maya/Sylar centric) music video set to Pure Morning by Placebo.
8. scary_tan to make an icon post already. :P
9. Dark Angel to crossover onto Bionic Woman and kick Jaime's ass. Really...this has gone on far enough. There's only room for one cool and COMPETENT brunette in this town.
Or just the Dark Angel DVD's...
10. BOOKS. Sci Fi, or Philip K Dick type crack. No George Orwell, he's too long winded. Any books by Ray Bradbury. The Dune series (I need a good laugh). Wonder Woman comics. The Silent Miaow by Paul Gallico.
But I wish of course, most of all, that you ALL have a happy, pleasant, I-Stuffed-Myself-Sick-With-Goodies Holiday.